LIFE QUOTES XXIII

quotations about life

Life is an incurable disease.

ABRAHAM COWLEY

To Dr. Scarborough

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Life is getting what you want, and I'm better at life than you are.

JEFF ABBOTT

Adrenaline

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Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

DAVID GERROLD

Alternate Gerrolds

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Life is the thing--the song of life--
The eager plow, the thirsty knife!

CONRAD AIKEN

"Youth Imperturbable"

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Life! Don't talk to me about life.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Living is a hazardous profession.

TOBSHA LEARNER

The Witch of Cologne

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Man reaches each stage in his life as a novice.

CHAMFORT

The Cynic's Breviary


Our slender life runs rippling by, and glides
Into the silent hollow of the past;
What is there that abides
To make the next age better for the last?

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration

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The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other--moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.

JOHN ELDREDGE

Desire


The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.

ALBERT CAMUS

attributed, Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd


To keep from dying is not the same as "to live."

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Harkonnen

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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!

ARISTOPHANES

Lysistrata

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Why, what in the world should we care for if it's not our lives, the only gift the Lord never offers us a second time?

MARCEL PROUST

Swann's Way

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How good is man's life, the mere living!
How fit to employ
All the heart and the soul and the senses
Forever in joy!

ROBERT BROWNING

"Saul"

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I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull, as ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.

SINCLAIR LEWIS

Babbitt

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It's only life. We all get through it.

DEAN KOONTZ

Odd Hours

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Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

WILLIAM JAMES

The Varieties of Religious Experience

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Life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly
A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains.

ROBINSON JEFFERS

"Shine, Perishing Republic"

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Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.

NORA ROBERTS

From the Heart

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Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus

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